tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984552444221553799.post7035744948816603880..comments2014-11-24T12:50:29.496-05:00Comments on <p>Basia&#39;s Polish Family: <p>From Wilno to Worcester</p></p>: Discovering Julian Prokopowicz’s Bogdan family in AmericaBasiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05420809103804345831noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984552444221553799.post-26798723866400978452012-11-10T00:43:33.959-05:002012-11-10T00:43:33.959-05:00I just wanted to thank you for your attention to d...I just wanted to thank you for your attention to detail and share some of my own family story, which tangentially ties in. You credited my great grandfather who founded that photography studio in Maynard MA. I was looking for something mostly unrelated, and the tag, with my grandmother&#39;s maiden name, on your ancestors wedding photo, caught my eye. I will have to check with my dad, but I think his grandfathers full name was Geoffrey Tomas Elson. He was a British immigrant, who had married his 2nd cousin and moved to the U.S. because the family in England did not approve. (or so the family myth goes) They had 9 children in Maynard. Unfortunately, he became an alcoholic in his middle to old age, and the photography studio had a bad fire, and I don&#39;t know much eles about them, both of them and most of their children having passed decades before I was born. <br /><br />However, I too have looked at photos with the same &quot;Geo. T. Elson Studio, Maynad Mass.&quot; stamped on the back edge. When my grandmother passed away, a few slightly illicit photos she had kept hidden away, which she must have produced at his studio in her late teens or early 20&#39;s, were found. I&#39;ve toyed with putting them on the web someplace, as much as she kept them hidden away, her younger self was at least a closet exhibitionist, by early 20th century standards. I&#39;ll try and remember to drop you a link if I ever make them public. Swan_writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06385875945249518431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984552444221553799.post-63992084031340614452012-07-22T21:40:05.076-04:002012-07-22T21:40:05.076-04:00Fabulous detective work! Congratulations on untang...Fabulous detective work! Congratulations on untangling part of your past.Danusha V. Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.com